Another week has passed us by on our journey to a sound sleep. This week has seen a few set backs involving numerous wake ups and a baby in our bed! It also saw the first time Taylor was put to bed by somebody who wasn’t me so it isn’t all bad. We’re still not feeding Taylor to sleep which was my main goal and I’m so pleased to have accomplished this.
Night #1 – This evening saw me leave Taylor with somebody else putting him to bed for the first time in the elven months since he was born. I was convinced he would be asleep downstairs when I got home. It was a real shock to receive a message from his Grandma at 7:30 to say Taylor was fast asleep in his bed after a bottle of milk. He woke around 8:30pm and was rocked back to sleep by Daddy. He did however wake at 4:30am but went back to sleep swiftly after seeing me. Overall what a success! I couldn’t imagine allowing somebody else to put him to bed before now so this is a big achievement for us both.
First wake up of the night, not bad considering I wasn’t home when he went to bed. #BubbarooBabySleepDiary
— Lisa LeeLeeLovesBlog (@LeeLee_Loves) November 28, 2015
Night #2 – Another night of self settling, I was hot on my heels to tweet to the worlds how wonderfully our precious boy had nodded off, only to be sat in his room 30 minutes later just as I was about to eat. He did however go back to sleep after this without being fed which is the goal! He also slept through.
I take that back, he’s awake. I picked up my dinner plate of course. 😂 #BubbarooBabySleepDiary — Lisa LeeLeeLovesBlog (@LeeLee_Loves) November 30, 2015
Night #3 – Taylor woke up at 12:30am, considering most of his wake ups have been prior to 09:00pm I felt like a zombie heading downstairs to his room, it’s like he knew I had work that day!
That’s one baby back to sleep, now mummy needs to sleep ready for work in the morning. 😩#BubbarooBabySleepDiary
— Lisa LeeLeeLovesBlog (@LeeLee_Loves) December 3, 2015
Night #4 – What an awful night, the first evening following me being back in work two days in row. Having only seen me for one hour in the evening to simply feed him and put him to bed I can only assume he may have been missing me. It’s a big change. He woke 5 times in the night, I was too tired to even take to twitter and moan about it. Breaking every rule in the baby sleep word at 4:00am I took him into out bedroom. I was full of cold and had hardly any sleep with work in the morning. Night #5 – After a very clingy day at home with mummy Taylor slept better than previous nights, he napped in the day but still woke before 9:00pm.
Their’s nothing sweeter than a sleeping baby. 😍 bubbaroobaby #bubbaroobabysleepdiary #sleep #baby… https://t.co/YF7502KpZz — Lisa LeeLeeLovesBlog (@LeeLee_Loves) December 6, 2015
Having had three weeks of really good progress I’ve found our fourth week to be the most challenging with the introduction of me being away from Taylor longer than I have been previously. If we’re able to stick to the routine from here then hopefully the goals I set with Infant Sleep Consultants will be effective upon my returning to work full time in January.
Our experience so far has been fantastic, the number one thing I wanted to fix before I return to work is Taylor being breastfed to sleep and we ended last week with him not only having a bottle before bed but being put to bed by his grandparents whilst I was out!
